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made Sopaipillas.  Every single one of them puffed.

 

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they are little pockets.  You put what ever you have inside.  I'd made beans yesterday.

 

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who would have guessed?????   A Kite.   She's flying a Kite!   ?????  !!!!!

and continuing the thought of yesterday,  i think it was yesterday,  about how it is to come to live Inside Your Own Life.   and i think,  what does that mean?,  it means living INSIDE your own life,  not fragmented…not partly in your own life and partly in the life outside your life.  Going back and forth,  that  constant shift.  We need to do that to   "make a living".  To be able to get a Place on the Planet,  get what we need.  But then…there comes the day when we've gotten all we need, really,

I'd like to go back to Rosalie Sorrals words…about her mother,  getting her first Social Security check.  I'll need to rummage through all the packed books,  the banker's boxes to find that.  Maybe i will,  maybe i won't.  But i think of it.  What Social Security brings…often the most bare minimum,  but enough to make beans and sopas.  To have days that belong to you,  days you belong to.  Things that i would have "put off",  just because there was no will,  things i would put off,  i now find come with an easy motion.  Change the Goat water AGAIN,  take the empty dog food bag out the gate to the car and fill it with half the 50 lb bag of food, haul it in.  Go to Mike and Thelma's to get their 2 bags of newspapers for fire starter.  Make Sopas.  Beans.  Give Water and Look at Stars.  

So much,  we Take for Granted.

 

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30 responses to “Surprises”

  1. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    Hi, Grace! Those look delicious! I may have missed it, but do you know when you’re moving?

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  2. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    Life is so strange and beautiful. Leaving makes the place seem more like home. Letting go brings you more. I have to go look for a recipe for your bread–and make some beans I think,
    We had a big storm here–no power–fridge and freezer are empty. But it feels good to start over again–to buy just what I need- nothing more. I am trying to do that in everything. Just enough. Nothing more.

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  3. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Never heard of Sopas but ummmm they look good. And yes that kite pulling her … and you wherever the winds blows.

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  4. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    How did I get it all done And work full time? Well, I didnt, now there is more on the to do lists because there can be, or not! I still find I do more for others and put my own on the back burner, but that is who I am, And I am ok with that. Yum to both the food and your cloth!

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  5. Hazel Avatar

    This post is full of light- the kite, sopas (I love them w/vanilla ice cream & cinnamon sugar), and the spirit of your days. “Days that belong to you” what a swell thing to look forward to.

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  6. Linda Avatar

    I love not working … outside the home..
    I love waking up in the morning and not having to leave.. knowing I don’t have to go to work.
    I love social security too. we are so lucky.
    I love soaps with honey.

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  7. Linda Avatar

    that’s sopas
    another type check that didn’t work.

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar

    such delight in that kite!

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  9. ali Avatar
    ali

    I love the simpleness of home things and not to have to leave – many years of working at many things Grace, I am so glad for you – and for me – that home can be where we are focused. I remember a post of yours about having waited, and actually the waiting was okay, but I can resonate with this being what was waited for.

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  10. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Every word…me too…just living INSIDE my life, at home, even in the shrinking bones and sagging skin of me…taking my time means just what it says and Rosalie Sorrels-dear her-“…She passes on an oral tradition that is a lost art…(Grandmas Garden)

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  11. jude Avatar

    i always find kites surprising. my heart goes oh!

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  12. Angie Avatar

    Would you mind sharing your recipe? Or maybe a link to your recipe? Did you deep-fry them? They look so yummy!

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  13. dee Avatar

    remember that book called ‘chop wood/carry water’? this post reminds me of it. finding ourselves through the simple acts of daily living. Or, trying to wake up there. Glad you have more time (will have?). And those sopas look sooooooooooo good!

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  14. grace Avatar

    oh, sigh…no…i don’t know. It’s all still Happening there…
    they work away at it.
    Sometimes now i think Spring might be good. That would
    bring us full circle.

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  15. grace Avatar

    it feels good, that Just enough. It’s Light….high Vibration.
    no power is also good in its own way….once the Fear subsides

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  16. grace Avatar

    Some will say that they are Mexican, but really, not…
    New Mexican and so common. Sometimes stuffed with
    savory, meat, potatoes chili beans
    sometimes a lighter version dipped in honey as a dessert.
    Traditional foods here are very basic.
    Kite was very much a Surprise…i used to think of Kites a lot.

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  17. grace Avatar

    Things will be different in California. I’m curious
    about how it will play out.

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  18. grace Avatar

    that’s happening now. In California, it’s a Commune.

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  19. grace Avatar

    that’s funny, because i was just thinking about
    making Goat Soap right before i read your comment…
    and thought…o! Linda’s psychic!

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  20. grace Avatar

    they are a bit of Magic

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  21. grace Avatar

    am still finding it new and very different…still changing…
    but it’s time, yes.

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  22. grace Avatar
  23. grace Avatar

    yes, exactly! oh!

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  24. grace Avatar

    there’s lots of recipes if you google and they are all
    pretty much the same.
    The tradition here in N Mex is to use lard, not oil
    and any difference is that kneading for 5 minutes, rest in
    warm place wrapped in plastic for 20 min gives a more bready
    sopa…like the ones you would fill with beans, meat, potatoes.
    knead less for a lighter version for dessert…with honey.
    no, not deep fry, but with enough oil in a cast iron frying pan so they can float. Hot oil. drop them in and as soon as they
    puff, turn and wait till golden.
    They’re very easy, and such common food here.

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  25. grace Avatar

    for now i have TIME.
    Sopas ARE good. My breakfast this week, stuffed with beans
    and green chili.

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  26. Hazel Avatar

    yes, for you- now, for me-someday.

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  27. grace Avatar

    we all wait our Turn. I think you will have a Turn.
    I think of my daughter tho, she may not get a turn as my
    Granddaughter. This is why the Commune is so critical
    to my hopes for them. If they don’t get a turn, they
    will have a World.

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  28. Hazel Avatar

    a place where we belong, that belongs to us, I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately, how important it is.

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  29. grace Avatar

    to me it is. To some, not so much.
    There was a time when i didn’t want to belong. I wanted
    to drift. Place to Place and it was really quite great,
    that drifting.
    but then it began feeling like Repeating. I planted gardens.
    “made worlds” over and over. 15 times in a couple years and
    i started wanting to
    Stay.
    to find out what it might feel like to Belong TO. Be partner
    with in a longer term way.
    so that’s been this Place.
    and now, i hope to be there in the beginning of That Place,
    Their Place….to have my hands in that Earth, watching it
    Claim them, watching them Claim it….it’s a kind of Love Thing

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